dev-tooling

Remote MCP and the Rise of Hosted MCP Servers

Remote MCP is moving the Model Context Protocol from local stdio to the cloud. Here's what remote MCP is, how hosted MCP servers work, and why Google shipping remote MCP the same week a YC startup launched “MCP Cloud” matters.

07/08/2026 · Industry Trends · 7 min read

Better Models, Worse Tools: Why AI Agents Still Feel Dumb in 2026

Frontier models keep getting smarter, yet the agents built on them still feel brittle. Here's why the bottleneck moved from model quality to tooling — and what that means for anyone shipping agents.

07/06/2026 · Industry Trends · 7 min read

What Is MCP Cloud? Hosting the Model Context Protocol in 2026

Self-hosting MCP servers is fiddly, and a new "MCP cloud" category is forming to fix that. Here's what MCP cloud actually means, when managed hosting beats doing it yourself, and how to get an MCP server running for your agents.

07/04/2026 · AI Tutorials · 8 min read

ZCode vs Claude Code: Z.ai's GLM-5.2 Coding Agent, Compared and Set Up

Z.ai just shipped ZCode, a first-party coding agent built around its open-weight GLM-5.2 model. Here's how it compares to Claude Code, when it fits, and how to get it running.

07/02/2026 · AI Tutorials · 9 min read